In an effort to improve the timeliness of coverage of public safety issues such as crime, the StarNews is shifting that coverage away from the Behind The Yellow Tape blog to a format that allows easier access for mobile readers. Complete coverage of crime news in the region appears on the StarNewsOnline Mugshots website at http://wilmingtonmugshots.com/ Content already contained in the Behind The Yellow Tape blog will remain accessible, but no new content will be added as of June 12,… Read More »

A $5,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the location of a Kenworth tractor trailer and lowboy trailer suspected of being stolen last month from a business in Brunswick County. … Read More »

A 35-year-old Georgia man was shot Cialis canadian pharmacy Sunday evening during a Mother's Day get-together at Robert Strange Park, according to Wilmington Police Lieutenant Obbie Blanton. how to get your ex back As of about 9 p.m., the man was in surgery for multiple gun shot wounds, which did not appear to be life-threatening. Dispatch received a call at 7:58 p.m. saying that shots had been fired at the park off of 9th and Castle. When police arrived at… Read More »

Police at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are investigating five small fires that broke out on campus early Friday morning, according to an e-mail sent to students, faculty and staff. … Read More »

Brunswick Count How To Get Back With Your Ex Girlfriend In A Long Distance Relationship y Sheriff’s Office investigators have issued warrants and are looking for a 17-year-old in connection with several breaking and entering cases, and larcenies that took place April 23 in the Lakewood area of Shallotte. How To Get Back With Your Ex Girlfriend In A Long Distance Relationship Jacob Tyler Cortes, 17, of Styron’s Landing Road in Supply is charged with two counts of breaking and… Read More »

A team of federal, state and local authorities arrested three men over the weekend who have been linked to two separate but possibly related shootings in Wilmington last month, police said Monday. Miguel Crews, 24, Deandre Sha'he Watkins, 17, and Myran Rashaad Holt, 22, all of Wilmington, were arrested Saturday by the U.S. Marshals Eastern North Carolina Violent Fugitive Task Force, which includes Wilmington police and state probation officers. Crews and Watkins were charged with opening fire on several people… Read More »

A 16-year-old burglary suspect who ran from a Wrightsville Avenue store early Friday was bitten in the face by a Wilmington Police Department police dog as he was being apprehended. custom essays Guthrie William Sharkey, the suspect, was one of three people who ran from the Buffaloes grocery store at 4924 Wrightsville Ave. as police arrived about 12:50 a.m. in response to an alarm, Cpl. Kevin Smith of the police department said. Although officers yelled at the suspects to halt,… Read More »

A 24-year-old man on the Wilmington Housing Authority?s trespass list was arrested Thursday evening after Wilmington Police Department officers spotted him in the Creekwood public housing neighborhood. custom essay writing service reviews Anthony James Cromartie initially was arrested about 6:30 p.m. at 700 N. 30th St. on a charge of second-degree trespass, but during a search of Cromartie officers found five packages of the illegal drug PCP, according to Cpl. Kevin Smith of the police department. Cromartie was additionally charged… Read More »

Homes in the 600 block of 10th street were evacuated late Tuesday night after vandals left soda bottles in the street buy cialis online that burst from the reacting chemicals they contained. Wilmington Police Cpl. Kevin Smith said about 9:30 p.m. police were called out to incidents on both 10th Street and the 1300 block of Queen Street. One viagra soft tabs bottle exploded on Queen and one on 10th. Smith said two bottles on 10th street didn’t explode. Often… Read More »

The sound of breaking glass roused a 57-year-old woman out of bed in her home on Front Street early Sunday morning. When she sat up, her eyes focused on a person standing in the doorway of her bedroom.… Read More »

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